The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

DuNKLEY. the Kalamazoo celery king,
has forty acres under cultivation.
MES. CLEVELAND objects TO finger rings |;
she only wears one, her wedding band.
THE Theater Comique, Paris, destroyed
by fire the other day, cost over S2,00O,O00.
AN English fashion note says EVERY
nice woman has given up wearing birds"
THE number Of soldiers monuments
erected this year will be greater than
usual
Mrs. CLEvELANp's photographs have g
large and increasing sale in London and
Paris.
Los Angeles, CAL, has added crema-
forum to its attractions a a resort for in
valids.
THERE are more than 10000 persons con.
fined in penal Institutions in the United
States.
IT is said that Mt. Washington was
never so white with snow at this season
as now.
RUSSELL SAGE, the New York million
aire, was fined 500 for refusing to serve
on jury.
A BALTIMORE man who has buried his
thirteenth wife declares thathe will never
marry again.
<h"cNu IHc uTliCleS IOunu on tnc new
York elevated railroads this year were
LOO umbrellas.
The eighth annual convention of the Pho
tographers Association will be held in
Chicago August 0.
IN thirty years Kansas has had but
three severe drouths-one in 1860, one in
1874 and one in 1881.
QUEEN VICTORIA will bestow 10000 beau
tiful mugs on the poor children of London
June %, at Hyde Park.
The conventions of Dakota are to vote in
November under a local option law on the
question of prohibition.
THE Car of Russia has photograph
album containing pictures of all the men
who have tried to kill him.
' AT New England dairy show there is
said to be on exhibition machine which
produces butter in two minutes.
THE titles to city property in Salt Lake
are in fearful muddle, owing to the pc
culiar way the Mormons have of raising
heirs.
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN says he can give the
names and addresses of 1000 gypsies
whose combined wealth will exceed So
100000.
TIE new U. S. Treasury silver vault
will be the largest in the world, having
capacity for one hundred million silver
dollars.
Mr.. ABELL, of the Baltimore SIM, with |
twenty millions or more at his back, is |
said to be the richest newspaper man in |
the world. |
THE shallow straw berry-boX Jokes are
about out OF season. 1t will now be in Or |
der to air your witticisms on the Delaware |
peach crop.
IHE Hebrew population of Jeru salem is |
rapidly increasing. 1t is now 19.OsO. the
largest number since Titus DESTROYED the
sacred city A. ID. 40.
FIFTYFIvE million cans were used in this
country last year for canning tomatoes,
and as many as 200,0OO,OOO cans were used
for other vegetables.
A COMPANY has been organized in Cincin. |
natl called 1.-The American Cooperative |
Dramatic Association" for the purpose of |
regenerating the stage.
A woMEN's school of journalism has been |
opened in Detroit. The girls are to be
taught type-setting, shorthand, revision
OF manuscript and proof-reading.
NINA VAN ZANDr visits and talks to An.
archist Spies daily in his Chicago cell, and
IL Is said he has not only lost his voice, but
is wasting to mere shadow of his former
self
Mrs. MARY A. TALcoTT, of Chicago.
makes an annual gift of $1,000 to the HUI
name Society of that city. Her husband
gave the society $4,000 during his life
time.
North CAROLINA clergyman not only
refused to marry an eloping couple, but
arrested the bride and telegraphed her
father that he held her subject to his or.
ders.
kEELY, the motor man, has advertised
1or all persons having claims against him
TO present them at once, as his "machinen
is about finished, and he wants to square
his accounts.
No DANGER of break in the German
succession. The Crown Princes eldest
son is robust young man of twenty-nine.
And it IS said that ''he already has four
all of them sons"
BETWEEN two and three tons of postal
cards are manufactured every day at Cas-
tleton, n. Y. The largest order ever tilleo
for New York City was 100000 cards, or
about twelve tons of paper.
ELISE T. BUCKINGHAM successfully man.
ages fruit farm of several hundred
acres in California, and urges other
women to take up the same kind of work.
for which she thinks women are well
fitted.
AMONG married ladies' photography is
being very popular of late. They like to
keep Photographic record of their ohil.
dren's growth and doings and make a
family album, which is of the most UNIQUE
interest.
''DzwoN," the first Polish paper in the
United States, has just made its appear
ance in East Buffalo, N. Y. 1t Announces:
"Wszelke rekopisma bez zastrzerzenia ME
zwracaja sie." We have no disposition to
dispute it.
AN autograph manuscript of Napoleon
l., being fragment Of the history of Cor
sica, which he wrote in 1870, has Just been
sold in Paris for 81, 100 1t was bought by
an Englishman.
TORONTO journal, in showing that the
ties of blood are stronger between Canada
and the United States than between Cana
da and Great Britain, points out that there
are nearly ~, 100, 900 native born Canadians
living in the States"
ONE Of the most remarkable thefts ON
record is reported from Whatcom, Wash
'ngton Territory, where thief stole an
entire orchard, just planted, hiding his
work for time by sticking willow twigs
IN holes where the fruit trees had been.
1T is said that the young female class of
Chinese in San Francisco are adopting
American habits, costumes and religion.
lF you desire u place of residence with